70gb Free But I'm Getting A Low Space Message!

[Vanchatron]

I have just installed a 2nd Hard Drive which has around 70gb of free space available to it and I want to move a couple of things over from 'C' drive to it. Well when attempting to move a game over just now which is 4.19gb I get the following error message:


http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/9586/notenoughspacell4.jpg


Now I shouldn't be getting this error message because here is a screenshot of the amount of space I have available in the 2nd HDD:


http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/6199/spacelj4.jpg


HK

[Fruss Tray Ted]

What is available on the original harddrive? It is probably because Windows is caching it first before it tries to transfer it. To cache it, the available space needs to be more than equal the space taken by what it is trying to cache. You can either relocate your cache file to the new drive (temporarily if you prefer) or relocate some other files first, until you have enough free space on the original drive.

Read the word 'Copy' in the first screenshot.

[Erik]

Also are you sure you changed the install directory to the new drive?

[Vanchatron]

What is available on the original harddrive? It is probably because Windows is caching it first before it tries to transfer it. To cache it, the available space needs to be more than equal the space taken by what it is trying to cache. You can either relocate your cache file to the new drive (temporarily if you prefer) or relocate some other files first, until you have enough free space on the original drive.

Read the word 'Copy' in the first screenshot.

I just searched my PC for 'cache' and got about 100 different results & about 20 different Cache folders. Which Cache folder do I move to my 2nd HDD?


HK

[mjc]

Umm...you are trying to move a greater than 4 GB file to a FAT32 partition.

Sorry, that doesn't work.

FAT32 has a file size limitation right around 4 GB.

Here is some info on it from Seagate...

http://www.seagate.com/support/ts/sata/errors/03_4gb.html

[Vanchatron]

Umm...you are trying to move a greater than 4 GB file to a FAT32 partition.

Sorry, that doesn't work.

FAT32 has a file size limitation right around 4 GB.

Sorry I should have stated it's not just a single file. It's a folder full of files. Anyway, at the moment I'm in the process of converting my drive from FAT32 to NTFS which I heard is better.


HK

[Fruss Tray Ted]

My question still remains, what is left for space on the original drive?

Dug this up if you want to try it:

Q. What about my swap file?
A. You may see a small system performance improvement if you move you swap file to a second hard drive if you have two installed. A swap file is the area on the hard drive that Windows uses as memory when it runs out of RAM. To do this click, START>Control Panel>System then the Advanced tab then click the Settings button under “Performance”. Then click the Advanced tab there then under Virtual Memory click Change and reassign the swap file to a new hard drive. This tip is only really useful if the hard drive you are moving it to is attached to the motherboard on a separate controller from the one your C drive is on. So if you have two hard drives, one with the C drive and E drive and a second with F and G, then move the swap file to either the F or G drive.

I also have My Documents in their own partition.

[coldfeet]

The same problem with mine.. its all about file limitation in the FAT32.. cant handle 4GBs +.. the funny thing is that i throw my 80 gbs hard disk.... haha... the second thing is that F.E.A.R iso image is the file that i cant seem to move to another disk....

[Sylvander]

You could use [a free trial version of] an imaging program ["Image for DOS (http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image.html)" (works outwith Windows=safest), "Image for Windows (http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/imagew.html)" etc] to make an image backup of the partition [C: on HDD1] holding those files, and save it to [a folder on] the partition on the new HDD [HDD2].
The image would be in a file set, maximum size of each file = 2 GB.
Then you could use the [FREE] TBIview (http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html) [run within Windows] to access the image file and restore any of the files in there to a location of your choosing [on the new HDD2].
The added benefit is that you'd have an image backup of C: as a by-product.

[karthik]

I'm not sure whether this is already been stated by Fruss Tray Ted, when you installed second HDD it is better to place the Virtual memory in the new drive, when the backup starts it needs more space in excecuting the process,
I don't know whether I'm right.
But as Ted said change the Virtual memory to the new drive and specify the amount of space instead of allowing Windows to manage it.